1.15 - THE SEED, THE FRUIT, APOMIXIS AND PARTHENOCARPY

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  1. 3. In most plants, by the time the fruit develops from the ovary, other floral parts ........ and .........
  2. 5. As Seeds have sufficient ............, young seedlings are nourished until they are capable of photosynthesis on their own.
  3. 7. Parthenocarpy can be induced through the application of .......... and such fruits are seedless
  4. 10. Being products of sexual reproduction, they generate new genetic combinations leading to ............
  5. 13. Most fruits however develop only from the ovary and are called ........
  6. 16. The transformation of ovules into seeds and ovary into fruit proceeds ...........
  7. 17. The embryo may enter a state of inactivity called .............
  8. 18. Seed is the basis of our .............
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  1. 1. .........is one such example for Parthenocarpic fruit.
  2. 2. The hard ........... provides protection to the young embryo.
  3. 4. Also seeds have better adaptive strategies for dispersal to ........... and help the species to colonise in other areas.
  4. 6. offer several advantages to .............
  5. 8. Many fruits have evolved mechanisms for ......... of seeds.
  6. 9. Firstly, since reproductive processes such as ........ and ............. are independent of water, seed formation is more dependable.
  7. 11. Although in most of the species, fruits are the results of fertilisation, there are a few species in which fruits develop without fertilisation.  Such fruits are called ............ fruits.
  8. 12. However, in a few species such as apple, strawberry, cashew, etc., the thalamus also contributes to fruit formation. Such fruits are called ............
  9. 14. The fruits may be ........ as in guava, orange, mango, etc., or may be ......, as in groundnut, and mustard, etc.
  10. 15. The wall of the ovary develops into the wall of fruit called .......